τράγος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From τρᾰ́γω (trágō, “to gnaw, nibble”) +‎ -ος (-os).

Pronunciation

Noun

τρᾰ́γος • (trágos) m (genitive τρᾰ́γου); second declension

1. billy-goat

   Τὴν αἶγα ὁ τράγος ἀγαπᾷ.

   Tḕn aîga ho trágos agapâi.

   The billy-goat loves the she-goat.

   Antonym: αἴξ (aíx)

   1. age when change of voice and other signs of puberty appears
      1. voice change that takes place in puberty
   2. lewdness, lechery
2. male sprat
3. spelt (Triticum spelta)
4. A rough kind of sponge.
5. (in Messenia) common fig Ficus carica)

   Synonym: ἐρῑνεός (erīneós)

6. horsetail (Equisetum sylvaticum)

   Synonym: ἐφέδρᾰ (ephédra)

7. stinking nard (Valeriana saxatilis)
8. (anatomy) part of the ear; tragus
9. A kind of light Lycian ship.
10. (astronomy) A kind of comet.
    1. (astronomy) One of the constellations of the δωδεκᾰ́ωρος (dōdekáōros).

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Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tsakonian: τσ̌άο (tšáo)
• → Latin: tragus
  • → English: tragus

References

• “τράγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Further reading

• “τράγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “τράγος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τράγος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• τράγος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τράγος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5131 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • goat idem, page 365.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾa.ɣos/

Noun

τράγος • (trágos) m (plural τράγοι)

1. billy goat, male goat
2. (anatomy) tragus
3. (colloquial, derogatory) sleaze, sleazeball, sleazebag (a lecherous man)
4. (colloquial, derogatory) priest (especially one with a long beard; compare: τραγόπαπας (tragópapas))

Declension

Derived terms

• αποδιοπομπαίος τράγος m (apodiopompaíos trágos, “scapegoat”)
• τράγειος m (trágeios, “goat, hircine”)
• τραγελαφικός m (tragelafikós, “grotesque”)
• τραγέλαφος m (tragélafos, “a fantastic creature, half goat and half deer”)

See also

• γίδα f (gída, “goat”)
• κατσίκι n (katsíki, “kid (goat)”)